currency
Money or other items used to facilitate transactions.
Example
“Wampum was used as a currency by Amerindians.”
Other meanings
The state of being current; general acceptance, recognition or use.
“The jargon’s currency.”
Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.
Related words
- currency adjustment factor
- currency crisis
- currency band
- currency basket
- currency cocktail
- currency code
- currency detector
- currency exchange
- currency intervention
- currency lad
- currency lass
- currency overlay
Example sentences
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This definition is adapted from “currency” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.